THE PRACTICAL DICTIONARY OF MECHANICS (4 VOLUMES)
Written by Edward H. Knight.
Stock no. 1831593
Published by Cassell & Co. Ltd.. Circa 1880. Almost very good condition.

A description of tools, instruments, machines, processes, and engineering; history of inventions; general technological vocabulary; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts. Three-quarter maroon leather binding (spine & corners). Brown cloth boards. 5 raised bands to spines. Gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations and plates, some folding. Title page to volume I (A to D) only. D to M, M to S and S to Z follow on in page numbering. 2831 pages spread over the four volumes. Undated but approximately 1880s. Leather is rubbed and worn with some surface loss. Boards marked/stained. Some foxing present as to be expected for a book of its age. Else contents clean. 2 pages detached from volume II (D to M) else binding is tight.

BILLY BUNTER AFLOAT
Written by Frank Richards. Illustrated by C.H. Chapman.
Stock no. 1331260
Published by Cassell & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1957. Good condition.

Billy Bunter book no. 21. Green boards, black titles. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. 223 pages. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Covers slightly grubby, red biro mark to front edge of spine. Endpapers lightly browned. Heavy foxing to textblock.

BILLY BUNTER'S BARGAIN
Written by Frank Richards. Illustrated by C.H. Chapman.
Stock no. 1330925
Published by Cassell & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1958. Almost very good condition.

Red boards, black titles to spine and front cover. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. 222 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Heavy foxing, mainly to first few pages.

BUNTER THE SPORTSMAN
Written by Frank Richards. Illustrated by C.H. Chapman.
Stock no. 1330649
Published by Cassell & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1965. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Green boards, black titles. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. 214 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Tiny dent to edge of front cover. Foxing to textblock and page margins. Dustwrapper is edge worn and slightly grubby with foxing on verso and circular drink rings to rear panel.

BILLY BUNTER AT BUTLIN'S
Written by Frank Richards. Illustrated by C.H. Chapman.
Stock no. 1325989
Published by Cassell & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1961. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Red boards, dark titles to spine and front cover. Colour frontis + b/w illustrations. 217 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Fading to cover edges. Foxing else contents clean. Dustwrapper is worn and chipped with slight loss, foxed on verso.

THE CRADLE SHIP
Written by Edith Howes. Illustrated by Florence Mary Anderson.
Stock no. 1325911
Published by Cassell & Co. Ltd.. 14th 1939. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth boards with black titles to front and spine. 4 colour plates. 154 pages. 8.5 x 6". Spine and corners bumped, slight fading to top and tail of spine. Some light foxing else contents clean. Dustwrapper is grubby and worn with edge tears and some loss.

BUNTER THE SPORTSMAN
Written by Frank Richards. Illustrated by C.H. Chapman.
Stock no. 1323959
Published by Cassell & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1965. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Green boards, black titles. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. 214 pages. Minimal bumping to spine. Small dents to top edges of covers. Name in blue biro to front free-endpaper. Looks like a free-endpaper at the rear of the book has been removed? Contents clean. Dustwrapper is slightly edge rubbed and a little grubby to rear panel.

WHEN BEATTY KEPT THE SEAS
Written by Frank H. Shaw. Illustrated by Gordon Browne.
Stock no. 1323785
Published by Cassell & Co. Ltd.. 1917. Almost very good condition.

Blue pictorial cloth. 4 colour plates. 312 pages. Reprint in same year as first edition. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Child's heavy pencil inscription to front pastedown. Vertical crease to centre of front free-endpaper. Foxing. One plate is loose but all still present.

THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT
Written by A.E. Bonser; Sidney Woolf; E.S. Bucheim. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 1318504
Published by Cassell & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1907. Good condition.

A collection of stories and illustrations which originally appeared in "Little Folks" between 1896 and 1902, during which period most of the numbers of the magazine contained some of Rackham's drawings. Large format. 36 tinted line-drawn plates and text illustrations. Brown cloth, gilt titles to spine; brick red titles and vignette to front cover. 144 pages. One of the more unusual Rackham items. Spine and corners are bumped and worn, splits in the cloth to the front edge of spine. Covers are rubbed. Name plate to front pastedown. Small ink blot to preliminary pages and some grubby fingermarks to page margins. Light page browning to free-endpapers.

BILLY BUNTER THE BOLD
Written by Frank Richards. Illustrated by R.J. Macdonald.
Stock no. 1317687
Published by Cassell & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1954. Very good condition.

Blue boards, dark blue titles. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped, spine browned. Some slight surface paper loss to pastedowns (from removal of small pieces of tape). Some titles unerlined on reverse of half-title page. Foxing throughout.

CASSELL'S CHILDREN'S ANNUAL
Written by Arthur Applin; Nancy M. Hayes; Christine Chaundler; Agnes Grozier Herbertson; Eric Wood; et al. Illustrated by Mabel Lucie Attwell; Florence Mary Anderson; E. Dorothy Rees; et al..
Stock no. 1404898
Published by Cassell & Co. Ltd.. Slightly better than good condition.

Green cloth spine with sporting vignette. Pictorial front cover shows four children opening a large orange door/book? Colour and b/w illustrations. 184 pages. Spine bumped. Corners bumped and worn. Board edges scuffed. Large scratches to front board. Damp mark to rear board which is grubby. Name in ink to top of front endpaper plus initials to front pastedown and endpaper. Both joints cracked showing webbing beneath. Some hinges also cracked. Browning to pages. Grubby marks to margins, including to some plates.

BILLY BUNTER AFLOAT
Written by Frank Richards. Illustrated by C.H. Chapman.
Stock no. 2115142
Published by Cassell & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1957. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Billy Bunter book no. 21. Green boards, black titles. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. 223 pages. Some light browning to cover edges. A few foxspots to outer page edges. Wrapper is creased with edge-tears and chips; 1" piece of loss to base of spine; grubby.